IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967-CA-05-025x
  • User Pedon ID: 67-CA-05-025x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6705025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42136
  • Print Date: 10/31/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 38.1508500
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7252290
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N.
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, SE/4
  • Map Unit: 7074—Loafercreek-Bonanza complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA009—Calaveras
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA630—Central Sierra Foothills Area, California, Parts of Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38120-B6—San Andreas, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • PSC - 37 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/30/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - LOS GATOS
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 1/21/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: slate
  • Geology: Slate And Conglomerate. Geolog formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/21/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—37

    9—37

    37—60

    60—200

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    5

    —

    —

    579

    —

    270

    635

    —

    —

    14.4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD03105
    A—1 to 9 centimeters (0.4 to 3.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; coarse sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots in cracks and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium irregular and 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03106
    Bw—9 to 37 centimeters (3.5 to 14.6 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 50 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03107
    Bt—37 to 60 centimeters (14.6 to 23.6 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), 50 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 fine irregular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD03108
    R—60 to 200 centimeters (23.6 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # UCD03109